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Jan
25
2012
Quantitative management research: torture or interrogation?Published in research, institutions, academia by Jukka Luoma | Comment (2)In recent times, there has been a lot of discussion about the questionable practices of scholars, universities and publishers. In a related fashion, the economist Ronald Coase once said that "if you torture the data long enough, Nature will confess." He referred to a common research practice of flexibly changing one's model, collecting more data and using different measures until you find interesting and publishable results; it is likely that at some point you will find statistically significant results purely by chance. For a qualitative researcher, flexibility is a good thing. In fact, going back and forth between data and theory is the primary mode of doing qualitative research. However, in quantitative research, flexibility is somewhat counter-intuitively considered a bad thing. Let me explain.
Jan
18
2012
Competitive dynamics of presidential electionPublished in Untagged by Jukka Luoma | Comment (0)
Jan
18
2012
Rigor of relevancePublished in entrepreneurship, Blog by Juha Antti Lamberg | Comment (0)An interesting dimension in management science is that the science part is largely in marginal role as a source of management ideas. In comparison, think about medical doctors who would use TV series as a source of knowledge, or engineers who would read science-fiction when designing a bridge? Does not sound good? |
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